DAVID IRVING GETS A BOMB THREAT IN CHICAGO

You know that thing a few days ago about David Irving appearing at a place called the Drake Hotel in Chicago? Guess what luxury hotel got a bomb threat? We have to say it explains a lot, namely why the hotel kept hanging up on people who were calling. Now we don’t know who phoned in the threat, but we are not going to assume anything. After all, while this story that death threats were responsible from shutting down the American Renaissance Conference last year, the only ones even saying that were the folks from American Renaissance, while the hotel and cops said nothing. We also got reports that the following evening, Irving canceled Detroit. We are going to start getting reportbacks soon enough, but it looks like Irving is feeling the heat again, so maybe Irving will think twice about going into the Midwest, just like he has with the Northeast. Then it will just be the South and West to deal with and he will never come here again!

WLS

CHICAGO – Bomb sniffing dogs and explosive technicians responded to the Magnificent Mile on Thursday night when someone called in a bomb threat targeting a Holocaust denier at the Drake Hotel. No one was hurt and no bomb was found.

About 7:30 p.m., authorities were notified that someone called a bomb threat in to the Drake at 140 E. Walton Pl., apparently not pleased that a man named David Irving was allegedly staying there, police said.

“Someone was upset that this Nazi group was having a meeting at the Drake,’’ according to a police Bomb & Arson investigator. “They said, ‘If you don’t kick them out, I’m going to blow up a bomb.’ ”

The hotel was not evacuated but police bomb-sniffing dogs and explosive technicians searched it. Nothing was found and nothing exploded, police said.

According to an editorial written by George Will published by the Sun-Times in February 2006, Irving was born in England in 1938, and was a “prodigy of perversity.”

He asked for a copy of Mein Kampf as a school prize. He grew up to be a
“moderate fascist” — his own description — historian who has made a career of arguing, in many books and incessant speeches, that although many Jews died of disease and hardship during the second World War, nothing like the Holocaust occurred, according to the editorial.

The Drake’s general manager was not immediately available Friday afternoon.

No one was arrested and Belmont Area detectives are investigating.